Decide Now is a popular random picker that can be used for lots of reasons in the classroom and is pretty popular. Many people often ask me how to add in your own choices, so I made a short screencast to show how it’s done. I’ve seen it…
Visuals are so powerful. Carl Hendrick wrote recently about motivational posters recently here and I tend to agree when they’re used out of context, however I think visualisations can be a great learning tool, particularly when students make them themselves. We can embed learning linked to numeracy in lots of…
A tool I’ve used many times in the classroom is Thinglink. I often forget how brilliant it is for lots of different purposes: shared curation of resources and research a place to put contextual links to different elements of a project a way to share learning a way to explain…
Bett this year has been a lovely, affirming, sharing and fabulous opportunity to connect and re-connect with some of the most innovative and passionate educators in the world. I was humbled to be asked by a number of people to speak and share my thoughts across my visit on Friday….
Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed the characteristics of great lessons but for me, the one person that nails it is as discussed in my introductory post to this series is Tom Sherrington. In his series he discusses the topic in some detail across ten posts. In my series I will…
There are lots of things that can inspire creativity in the classroom. We know why we want our students to be creative and to think creatively – it’s so that they can express themselves in ways that enable them to embed their learning in the classroom. One of the ways…
Vidra is a great free new app from the creators of the also brilliant Grafio – TenTouch Apps. I was using Grafio on my iPad today and saw that they were promoting this new app – the end result looked pretty good and not too dissimilar to Adobe Voice (which I…
Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed this but for me, the one person that nails it is as discussed in my introductory post to this series is Tom Sherrington. In his series he discusses the topic in some detail across ten posts. In my series I will be looking at…
Streamed live on December 30th, this AppSmash Live featured educators from all over the globe sharing their ideas. Big thanks to Richard Wells (@iPadWells), Joe Dale (@JoeDale) and Jenny Ashby (@jjash) for joining me in this session. Watch it back again now below:
I’m liking the updated sections in the App Store that have been broken down by different learning stage. Have you seen them? They’re broken down by key stage and then within each of those sections they’re broken down further by learning activity. What is also nice is to see the…
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